ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,401, issued on June 24, was assigned to BASLER AG (Ahrensburg, Germany).

"Multipath and noise reduction for time-of-flight cameras" was invented by Timon Ehrlich (Ahrensburg, Germany) and Dominik Wolters (Ahrensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight, ToF, camera for measuring distance information for objects of a scene. The ToF camera comprises a light source for illuminating the objects, an image sensor for acquiring light signals reflected from the objects, a processing unit for processing first portions of the reflected light signals modulated with oscillations of a first frequency, and for processing second...